St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

will be sheltered, will contain l,5OO
tents. Besides the Eureka Springs
Guards, of Arkansas, tho battalion
from the First regiment of Illinois and
Company G of the First regiment Of Kan
sas have withdrawn their entries and
will not go to Washington. Counting
out all of the withdrawals, about eighty
seven organizations have entered and are
expected to be in camp.
FORTY manufacturing firms of Haver-
hill, Mass, have declared a lockout, 5000
persons being put out of work.
IT Is stated on authority at the Missouri
capital that impeachment procee lings are
to be begun against State Auditor
Walker
FIVE of the Car latest assailants were
executed on the 10th.
AT the Louisville (Ky.) race track on
the 18th one of the Jockeys was adjudgel
guilty of crookedness and was ruled off
the track.
THE National Republican washing ton)
charges that the British Government is to
demand that the United States shall pay
the Virginia bonds.
NJ. SCHNAEBELEs has been permanently
relieved from duty as commssary in
Alsace and transferred to a similar post
at Laon, in the Department of Aisne
SECRETARY LAMAR with the approval Of
the President, has requested Secretary
Endicott to send troop Of cavalry to
Cheyenne, Wyo., to aid the land officials
in carrying out the Presidents proclama-
ton in regard to the illegal fencing in Of
the public domain.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales.
Prince Henry of Battenberg and the
Princess Beatrice attended the Ameri can
exhibition at London on the 18th.
FIRE on the night of the 18th destroyed
the old No. l Washington mill, at Law
renee, Mass, owned by Frederick W.
Leyer, Of Lowell. 1t was of brick, and
nine stories high. Loss, SIS, 900. Insured.
THE Pail Mall Gazettee announces that
June 81 is to observed as a holiday
throughout the United Kingdom. On that
day the Queen will have completed the
fiftieth year of her reign.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL CARNEs Of the famous
Chickasaw Guards IS one of the militia Of
ticers selected by General Augur for a
position on his staff at the militia encamp-
ment in Washington.
MRS. GIBSON, the wife of Senator Ran
dali l.. Gibson, of Louisiana, died in Wash
ington on the 18th. The remains will be
removed to Louisiana for burial. Mrs
Gibson was a sister of Mr.. Linden Kent of
Washington, and Mr. Henry 7. Kent of
st. Louis.
ERNEST L. VoN DIEZELsKI who was to
have been married to Miss julia Bardot,
formerly of st. Louis, but whose bliss was
postponed by arrest for desertion at the
instance of his mother, was finally re-
leased on the 18th at Washington and was
married to the young lady.
THE Dubuque Ia.) Times office was Wis
tied by fire on the evening of the 17th for
the second time inside of three months.
1t was confined to the paper room, in
which was newspaper stock worth 81, 500.
the most of which was burned or de-
stroyed by water
SOMETHING of miniature reign of ter
ror, the result of petty prosecution for
drunkenness in Canton, Oak, has arisen.
fourth of the street gas lamps in the
city were destroyed at midnight of the
10Th, and other destructive freaks of van
dalism INDUCED in. The Council met IN
special session on the 18th and arranged
for additional police force.
GEORGE E. REID, ex city treasurer of
Bismarck, Dak., who left for parts un-
known on the 14th, and who is supposed
10 Uc LII CdudId NOW. lS nepucW VI Iut
late Alex. Mitchell, of Milwaukee.
A BOILER at the saw mill of Betz &
Morrison at Galiopolis, O., exploded on
the 18th, wreckin g the mill and injuring
five men-three fatally.
E. r. ELLIS, prominent citizen Of
Coatesville, Ind, was brutally assaulted
on the night of the 10Th by desp crate
character named Steve Hampton, Jr, and
hoa fo ic
member of the Democratic county central
committee, and an advocate of the tenn
perance cause.
THE reports of the discovery of an oil
well in the Turtle Mountain region, one
hundred miles north of Bismarck, Oak,
has occasioned no small amount of ex-
element, and it is believed that the
stampede into that region will be- great.
The oil was discovered while boring
we'll, and it is said to be flowing rapidly.
O'BRIEN and his friends were stoned by
a mob in Toronto on the 18th, and O'Brien,
together with several others were quite
badly hurt. The police finally dispersed
the turbulent element
NINE. JANAUscHEK, the famous actress,
fell down stairs at Newport r. l., on the
night Of the 18th and broke an arm.
ANh AhSELL q pCai Ou III Uh0 1OUbs VI
the British House Of Commons on the 18th.
MAJOR. ]. L. RATnBoNE, of California.
has been appointed Consul-General of the
United States at Paris.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has definitely
concluded to make the visit to st. Louis in
the fall, and has so expressed himself
TIE failure of Swan, the Wyoming cat
tie king, it now transpires, was the result
of confidence game practised by an al
legged agent of a Scotch syndicate.
THE French Cabinet crisis is still the
absorbing theme in Paris and Europe
generally. The indications favor pro-
longed disagreement.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Schuyler
Coifax was unvailed at Indianapolis on
the 18th. 1t was erected by the Odd
Fellows and the Daughters of Rebecca.
IT is denied from st. Petersburg that
the Afghan boundary settlement has
failed.
j. CoNDIT SMITH has explained the
mystery Of his beng shot in New York
city two months ago. He confesses that
he did the deed himself, with intent to
he, OFF of